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Champ
2 little ladies
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whole milk
So this weekend we decided to start the twins on whole milk, from breast milk. At least for 1 bottle a day to see how they did. One of my girls had no issue. The other girl has no interest. She tasted it, made a face and threw the bottle yesterday. Today..same thing. So then I mixed up a 50/50 split with BM. She is still not interested and threw it further.
I'm not sure what to do. Any recommendations??
TIA
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Posted 11/4/12 2:55 PM  |
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apwmjc
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Re: whole milk
Try doing less milk & more bm. For example if she gets 6 ozs do 4 ozs of bm & 2 ozs milk. Do that for a couple of days & then increase it to 50/50.
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ny55angel
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whole milk
Go ounce by ounce, or even half ounce. Wait a few days then add a lityle more. Do it with every bottle so they know what to expect.
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| Posted 11/4/12 4:11 PM |
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Re: whole milk
Posted by ny55angel
Go ounce by ounce, or even half ounce. Wait a few days then add a lityle more. Do it with every bottle so they know what to expect.
This is what I did after DD wouldn't drink milk the first time. Worked great!
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| Posted 11/4/12 4:25 PM |
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Champ
2 little ladies
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Rose
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Re: whole milk
Posted by ny55angel
Go ounce by ounce, or even half ounce. Wait a few days then add a lityle more. Do it with every bottle so they know what to expect.
Thank for responding. This seems like it has the potential to waste a ton of BM. I will try it tomorrow with smaller amounts. Like .75 oz of bm and .25 oz milk.
The plan is to keep them on 1 bottle a day of fresh BM through the winter to give them the antibodies to protect them. I'm a school teacher and am in contact with 300 kids a day. They are a year adjusted next week and being premies still have a major risk of getting seriously sick.
Fingers crossed that this works
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| Posted 11/4/12 5:21 PM |
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Lannasmama
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Re: whole milk
I did it very slow. If DD was taking 7 oz of formula I would do 1 oz of milk and 6 oz of formula for 2 days and then up the milk every two days with less formula. She had no issues.
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mrsboss
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whole milk
I transitioned dd very slow, it prob took 6 weeks. We started with a 5:1 ratio of formula/milk.
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| Posted 11/4/12 7:37 PM |
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PreshusSmurf
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Re: whole milk
Posted by Lika71302
I did it very slow. If DD was taking 7 oz of formula I would do 1 oz of milk and 6 oz of formula for 2 days and then up the milk every two days with less formula. She had no issues.
This is what we did too, and it worked perfectly.
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| Posted 11/4/12 8:28 PM |
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wingsofsong
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whole milk
My son wanted NOTHING to do wtih whole milk!! We tried and tried, and after about 2 months, it occurred to me: the only liquids he ever drank in his whole life up to that point were breastmilk and water, both of which are very thin. I thought the whole milk might be too thick. So we tried giving him skim milk- he took to it right away! We never mixed with BM because by that point, I didn't have enough pumped BM to do so. So we did pure skim, then after a day or 2, mixed half skim half 1%, then all 1%, then half 1% half 2%, then all 2%, etc. up to all hole milk. The whole process only took a week or so. HTH!
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| Posted 11/4/12 10:58 PM |
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Champ
2 little ladies
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Rose
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Re: whole milk update
So todays update... We watered it down it she drank it no problem! We will continue to thicken it up.
Thanks for all of your help.
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| Posted 11/5/12 4:22 PM |
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JenMarie
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Re: whole milk
Posted by ny55angel
Go ounce by ounce, or even half ounce. Wait a few days then add a lityle more. Do it with every bottle so they know what to expect.
This is exactly what I did. DD fought it a bit at first, but within a week or two she was fine with it and loves milk now.
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